yeah doing both jobs I see things from both sides, really need provision for tractors to pull to the side a bit in order to let other vehicles pass, only problem would be the number of â â â â â â â caravanners whoâd think it was for them to stop in to put the kettle on. Believe it or not when we lived on a farm weâd get them parking up right across our road end every bloody summer.
Highlander:
Pull over when you have 6 or more vehicles behind you?That means I would have to pull into every layby going down the A9 on a Saturday afternoon in summer.Thatâs not going to happen
âPLEASE ALLOW OVERTAKINGâ
i am on my side of the road so i am allowing overtaking 
So if the first car in the queue doesnât take an opportunity to overtake, arenât they guilty of inconsiderate driving as well?
So there you are on a twisting and undulating single carriageway road, driving your Gardner-powered old lorry or bus to some rally or show. The thing will do 42 flat out, but itâs much happier at 38 and kinder on your ears. The thing doesnât like these constant little hillocks which means you have to drop a cog and then canât change up until it flattens out again. So to comply with Jones the Plodâs Diktat you are supposed to stop (where safe and suitable) every time you can see six cars in the mirror. In fact most of the time you canât see the first four of them because they are so close up your arse that they are not in view. That means you will be looking for somewhere to stop just as you hook top gear (if you are lucky).
Now Mr My-â â â -Doesnât-Stink in his German car, was 200/300 yards away when you pulled back out again after your stop to let the last queue pass, but heâs got the hump because his Mrs reckons it does - so he complains to Jones the Plod that you dangerously pulled out right in front of him causing him much distress because his secretary, Miss Jiggly-Bum, was giving him a â â â â â â â â at the time. Having to ease off the gas caused him to drop the spliff he was smoking, which fell into her hair and she bit him.
But he didnât tell Jones the Plod the last bit.
Perhaps if the powers that be hadnât all but abolished Traffic Police over the past twenty years, they would have been available to educate errant drivers. The standard of driving would not have declined to itâs present abysmal level because there would have been constant reminders by the presence of Police Officers here there and anywhere else you can think of.
Cameras, 20mph speed limits and the like do very little if anything to improve driving standards. Police chiefs scratch their heads and wonder why the accident rate increases, well get out of your offices and look around, lunatics in all modes of transport, mud dumped on roads, vegetation allowed to obstruct road signs and vision, white lines and cats eyes all but disappeared and potholes to name but a few.
What about the vintage tractors with the signs on the back saying âyou are following a 1950 Ferguson Oo R. Seriesâ? Personally I couldnât care less. Stick it on an old beavertail lorry and drive it to the show at a sensible speed. Tractors that are working I can live with. I donât mind seeing a traction engine either but vintage tractors and ploughing contests no thankyou. Talking of vintage kit, stationary engines pumping a gallon of water around a barrel? Not interested.
The German car driving Nimbyâs who complain about slow moving tractors are the same Nimbyâs who buy second homes in the country (making it impossible for said tractor drivers to buy locally at a reasonable price) & complain about the church bells & cows mooing on a Sunday morning.
âFâ em, they can sit behind my 40 mph wagon & stew in their own Whinging â â â â .
martinviking:
The German car driving Nimbyâs who complain about slow moving tractors are the same Nimbyâs who buy second homes in the country (making it impossible for said tractor drivers to buy locally at a reasonable price) & complain about the church bells & cows mooing on a Sunday morning.âFâ em, they can sit behind my 40 mph wagon & stew in their own Whinging â â â â .
Absolutely spot on
Need a like button on here
To Cotswoldcrunch if the vintage tractor owner or any other road user has paid his/her road tax they have just as much right to be on the road as you have. Simply because you donât like something do you think the people involved should not. And no I donât have a tractor. Eddie.
erfguy:
To Cotswoldcrunch if the vintage tractor owner or any other road user has paid his/her road tax they have just as much right to be on the road as you have. Simply because you donât like something do you think the people involved should not. And no I donât have a tractor. Eddie.
Isnât the vintage tractor tax exempt? I shouod be going to a local rally this weekend, but Iâll drive past and check out whatâs there; Plenty of classic lorries, cars traction engines etc then Iâll pay to go. Loads more of Fordson Majors and "putt putt putts pumping water and making a couple of lightbulbs glow, then no. They can shove it up their arse. 
Perhaps someone can ask the Wisemans drivers as well?
Perhaps the police could do them for blatantly pulling out infront of traffic? Around here this is worse than tractors not moving over.
Cotswoldcrunch:
erfguy:
To Cotswoldcrunch if the vintage tractor owner or any other road user has paid his/her road tax they have just as much right to be on the road as you have. Simply because you donât like something do you think the people involved should not. And no I donât have a tractor. Eddie.Isnât the vintage tractor tax exempt? I shouod be going to a local rally this weekend, but Iâll drive past and check out whatâs there; Plenty of classic lorries, cars traction engines etc then Iâll pay to go. Loads more of Fordson Majors and "putt putt putts pumping water and making a couple of lightbulbs glow, then no. They can shove it up their arse.
Donât worry lad, I wont be exhibiting there this year!
Pete.
The Ducklington rally can be a bit odd. Good mix of vehicles but thereâs some wild west exhibition thing, and a few vendors of charity shop rejects.
Donât forget my biggest annoyance; some bloke displaying old petrol cans. Fascinating.
Just for laughsâŚ